Industrial process water is used for manufacturing processes such as washing, coating and plating, and rinsing and spraying, and boiler and cooling tower water. There may be several steps involved in the treatment process. To keep this simple, I will start at a fundamental level to look chiefly at the treatment of boiler water and cooling water.

Keeping water quality at optimal levels is essential to promoting process efficiency and user satisfaction while avoiding premature corrosion and equipment failures, says Yokogawa in a white paper.

A winery installed a reverse osmosis (RO) system to produce clean permeate water for bottle rinsing, cooling and boiler water makeup. Three ROs and one reject recovery closed-circuit RO (CCRO) were designed to treat a well water source with high alkalinity and silica concentrations above 50 ppm.

Microbiological growth is a common foulant in reverse osmosis systems. Monitoring for signs of biofouling, therefore, is critical for efficient system operation.

An order for reportedly the first full-scale industrial ultrahigh-pressure reverse osmosis (UHP RO) system was receive by Saltworks. The new system includes spiral-wound membranes rated to 1,800 psi (124 bar). A U.S. manufacturer of advanced materials will use the system to achieve a tenfold reduction in disposal volume while recovering clean water for reuse.

A skid-mounted, reverse-osmosis (RO) system is designed to produce ingredient water for infant formula and soft drinks.

Anyone in the industrial or wastewater industries knows that cooling towers are among the largest consumers of water. Even small towers use more than 105,000 ft³ (3,000 m³) of water per year. To put things in perspective, that is enough water for more than 200 households.

Mobile, on-demand water treatment solutions provide options for industries needing high quality water in an emergency or for a scheduled outage. With that in mind, Suez Water Technologies & Solutions is opening a new mobile water service center in Atlanta.

A Midwest feed mill was treating its incoming well water for high levels of alkalinity with amine chemical. Seeking to reduce its chemical treatment costs, it reached out to U.S. Water and its EnergyOut system, an integrated solution to address the alkalinity issue and improve plant efficiency.

U.S. Water was awarded a contract to design a reverse osmosis (RO) system for a Midwest food and beverage plant’s expansion. The new RO system allowed the plant to reach an 87 percent permeate recovery rate.